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The day I lost my Leatherman: a cautionary airline guitar story
I want to share an experience I had traveling with guitars last summer. I was dropped off late to Toronto Airport to catch a flight to Beijing. I had two acoustic guitars in professional carbon-graphite flight cases as well as … Continue reading
A big year
My own personal 2016 was such an enormous year that I feel the need to write it down. It was amazing not only for the vast traveling I did, but for all the experiences and challenges I had along the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Guitar, Touring, Travel, Uncategorized
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Three days in Odessa, Ukraine
I had always wanted to see Odessa, ever since watching the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkim in high school. The brilliantly-conceived scene of horror and tragedy distilled into an ironic symbol — a baby in a buggy rolling … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Music, TheArts, Touring, Travel, Uncategorized
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An incredible year
I think this past year has been the biggest of my life. It was a year of creating, producing, traveling, performing, making new friends, learning, meeting challenges and growing. It was a year of “firsts” — my first album in … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Guitar, Learning, Music, Performing, Photography, Recording and producing, Teaching, Thoughts, Touring, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Guitar, learning, Music, thoughts, Travel
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China on my mind
I went to China for the first time last month. I spent ten days playing concerts and workshops, sightseeing, exploring, eating, drinking and shooting photos in the three biggest cities — Guangjhou, Beijing and Shanghai. Food, the heat and humidity, … Continue reading
A unique festival
I recently participated in a unique music festival in Rochefort, France, called Rochefort en Accords. The slogan of this small festival in the south of France — the brainchild of French Canadian organiser Pascale Graham and her partner, American cellist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Composing, Creativity, Culture, Learning, Music, Performing, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged festivals, france, international, Music, musicians, rochefort
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What I gain from touring
The tour is over. Fifty-one dates/ two-and-a-half months…just like that. I can’t believe there’s no airport to get to, van to climb in, hotel to check into, venue to set up in, sound check to do, show to play, fans … Continue reading
A memorable gig
At the end of November 2011, I played a concert in a synagogue in Wrocław, Poland, as part of the Wrocław Guitar Festival. What made this gig stand out was a convergence of things I love: travel, international culture, language, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Food and Wine, Music, Performing, Photography, Touring, Travel
Tagged Culture, gigs, Music, performing, Touring, Wroclaw
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The romance of commercial air travel
Remembering the distant sound of a single engine airplane passing overhead when I was a little boy growing up in a small town in upstate New York. It was the sound of possibility, travel, adventure and the wider world. I … Continue reading
Photo post: The U.S. tour 2011
Here are some random photos from my U.S. west coast tour. The four-week tour began at the end of September in Portland, Oregon and headed south to spots in northern, southern, central California, the Bay Area, and finished in Yosemite … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Food and Wine, Outdoors, Photography, Touring, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged food and wine, outdoors, photography, Touring, Travel
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